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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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